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FinCEN Issues FINAL Customer Due Diligence Rules

Monday, May 9, 2016 6:45 AM

Friday, May 6, FinCEN issued final rules to “clarify and strengthen” customer due diligence requirements under the Bank Secrecy Act for covered institutions, including credit unions.

FinCEN’s final rules require compliance by May 11, 2018 and contain explicit customer due diligence requirements including a new requirement to identify andverify the identity of beneficial owners of legal entity customers.

The preamble of the final rules provide detailed guidance, including definitions of the following:

It is important to note than FinCEN’s final rules include the obligation for financial institutions, including credit unions, to obtain beneficial ownership information on EXISTING members/customers, “when, in the course of normal monitoring, the financial institution detects information relevant to assessing or reevaluating the risk of such customer.” (Preamble, page 28, 93)

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